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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1419780" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Most likely the calf's slow start was from the pull. Have had one family that the females are all very fertile at a young age and have to be careful to get the bulls out before the calves get too old and it lessens the chance of a heifer getting bred too young. Also helps to keep our calving windows tighter.</p><p></p><p>This year certainly doesn't seem to be working right though. Have several that must've gotten bred the day the bull went out , and from the two places that it is hard to get the bulls out because of having to move the whole group through 2 other pastures to a barn yard to get them contained. So, usually the bulls in those 2 places are in for close to 6 months and we pull them when we are going to preg check and move cows around. The other places we try to keep to 90 days and a couple I have it down to 75 days. Funny thing is the vet checked most of these as being maybe a month less than the others and it is nearly 2 months and still nothing except getting bigger and bigger around. Oh well, maybe they got caught by an elephant passing through on the last Ringling Bros circus tour....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1419780, member: 25884"] Most likely the calf's slow start was from the pull. Have had one family that the females are all very fertile at a young age and have to be careful to get the bulls out before the calves get too old and it lessens the chance of a heifer getting bred too young. Also helps to keep our calving windows tighter. This year certainly doesn't seem to be working right though. Have several that must've gotten bred the day the bull went out , and from the two places that it is hard to get the bulls out because of having to move the whole group through 2 other pastures to a barn yard to get them contained. So, usually the bulls in those 2 places are in for close to 6 months and we pull them when we are going to preg check and move cows around. The other places we try to keep to 90 days and a couple I have it down to 75 days. Funny thing is the vet checked most of these as being maybe a month less than the others and it is nearly 2 months and still nothing except getting bigger and bigger around. Oh well, maybe they got caught by an elephant passing through on the last Ringling Bros circus tour.... [/QUOTE]
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